LAND OF OUR FUTURE - AGROECOLOGICAL FARMING: CREATING A FUTURE WHERE PEOPLE

meaning that rather than being enclosed in fields, they form a natural association These farmers are not dependent on external suppliers for feed and not subject to the through the generations with an area of the hill and learn the beneficial plants in volatility in prices from global shocks, such as the war in Ukraine and climate change the landscape and where good grazing can be found at differe. [...] The intention was to farm organically but as the years progressed, they found that organic wasn’t enough to achieve the aims they had set themselves of farming with nature, and they began to adopt biodynamic methods with their focus on putting the vitality back into the soil and acknowledgement of the inter- connectedness of everything. [...] AFTER THE LAND THE BEST WE COULD AND WE FOUND WE COULD DO THIS BY FARMING BIODYNAMICALLY.’ ‘AS THE ENTERPRISES STACK UP AND DIVERSIFY THE 51 LAND OF OUR FUTURE CASE STUDY 2 NANTCLYD FARM CONNECTIONS AND BENEFITS BECOME APPARENT, FROM THE SOIL LIFE TO THE OVERALL PRODUCTIVITY OF THE FARM.’ To achieve a regular weekly income for the family, two sheds of laying hens arrived in 1999. [...] THE TREES AND BEING ENCLOSED BY TREES HAS A CALMING EFFECT FOR ME AND FOR THE COWS.’ CASE STUDY 4 SLADE FARM PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH PHOTOS: © ALED LLYWELYN / WWF CYMRU 70 LAND OF OUR FUTURE CASE STUDY 4 SLADE FARM ‘WE BELIEVE THAT FARMING ORGANICALLY IS THE ONLY SENSIBLE WAY TO FARM FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND FOR THE QUALITY OF PRODUCE AND WE FARM THE WAY WE DO SO THERE IS A LEGACY INTO THE F. [...] THE FARM HAVE RECORDED bellflower is found on the farm in the wet flushes caused by the natural OF COLOUR FROM THE HUNDREDS OF SPECIES flow of the streams.